In a message dated 6/27/2007 12:06:58 AM Central Daylight Time, saintonge@telus.net writes:
That requires making the dangerous assumption that we already know how. It's a condescending attitude that makes no allowance for the possibility that a newbie might have good ideas.
I don't get it. They can still present them. We have policies and guidelines about how to do everything. So we should scrap those because a newbie might have good ideas? Fiction shouldn't be an exception.
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On 6/27/07, SonOfYoungwood@aol.com SonOfYoungwood@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 6/27/2007 12:06:58 AM Central Daylight Time, saintonge@telus.net writes:
That requires making the dangerous assumption that we already know how. It's a condescending attitude that makes no allowance for the possibility that a newbie might have good ideas.
I don't get it. They can still present them. We have policies and guidelines about how to do everything. So we should scrap those because a newbie might have good ideas? Fiction shouldn't be an exception.
About how to do *everything*?
Don't you recognize that *you're a newbie*?
You are in fact arguing that we should scrap policies and guidelines because you, the comparative newbie, think you have good ideas.
You are also arguing that we should *not* scrap policies and guidelines.
Which one is it?
I'm reminded of Dana Perino now.